I saw the news from the GSW management that they'll do everything just to keep Poole and Wiggins. This is a nice step because we've seen how these two added great contribution to the team.

As said, it is what they're prioritizing right now so these two can count on the management and they'll be kept for their upcoming contracts. This is a huge contract for the two and I've forgot the other one which if we will combine the three of them, GSW will cost them $500M+.

That was the bubble championship right? Shortened period which makes it less grueling compared to regular season games.

If what you mean by this is less game load, yeah it could probably work. It would put more burden to other players like Lebron/Westbrook to produce more and cover the points though. Maybe if they can find a solid young big to fill in during his absence.

That's going o be hard if agents of both players tries to push the envelope. If that happens, GSW will probably choose to keep Poole and let Wiggins go.

At the end of the day, it depends on the priority of the players (another ring or big payday). They already have the ring that only a handful will achieve in their career and they can choose to chase max contracts in other teams now if GSW couldn't convince them to take less.

We cannot expect much about it because he's not drafted on NBA so meaning he need to improve more so that he became something big in NBA. But knowing lakers and Lebron want's fast process maybe he still cannot get decent minutes on lakers knowing that this team still have good players.

But let see how they improve their skills because somehow people keep looking for their performance to provide on their respective team.

I wish it's as simple as splurging money. Doing everything to keep them both doesn't really mean 'everything'. The amount of the contract each player's agent will demand from GSW management would matter because each team has limits as to how much they could spend every season. Apart from limited resources, we have to remember about salary cap and luxury tax levels. GSW also have to take into consideration the other contracts that will expire beyond 2022-2024 season.

It's still Houston Rockets for me who won the Draft 2022. Both are good forwards but I like Jabari more than him. I dont know if it's because of the weight as Paolo is bigger than Jabari. I like slim players in the forward position more to adapt with the small ball speed like how I picked RJ Barrett over Zion  Williamson at Draft 2019.
Now we could see the results, more injury prone for the bigger man than the slimmer one.

I think Houston and Detroit won the draft here.  Detroit had star pg in Jaden ivey fall on their laps and then traded to get jalen Duran, which effectively will solve theor pg and center position for the future.  Duran could have went top 10 as well so great haul for them.

According to National Television Authority International (NTA'L) TV news this evening by 7:pm local time says. Brittaney Griner, American Basketball Star to stand (face) trial in Russia court on Friday on the first of July, 2022. That is 01/07/2022 on the charges of illegal cannabis (drugs) possession. And if she is found guilty of the crime, she will be jail to serve the prison for about 10 years. Now how old is she now that she would still serve prison with the whole 10 years in jail to add it to the years she is.

She was arrested when returning to play for Russia team at the airport. But her fans are trying to swap her with a terrorist that has 24 years prison jail terms. But for now she is on preliminary trial.
I also pray that she should be released.

For more information, please check this link.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6502709

The thing is, Brittney Grier is not charged with "drug use", if that was the case then it would still be bad in Russia, but not upto 10 years in prison. I do not know the amount, because in Russia laws are a bit strict on this, so even if it was good enough for just one person, if it was like 5 joints then it would be possesion in order to sell type of stuff. But the reality is that she is getting charged for drug trafficking with an intention of distributing. I am not saying she did that, like I said, she could be carrying like just 5 joints and Russian law would consider that as drug seller amount of drugs, and thats her problem right now. I hope that they would do a prisoner swap again, because she is a big enough name to give Russia power, and USA should not be letting a great american basketball hero to rot in Russian prison, that wouldn't be good at all, they need to use diplomacy to handle this.

well... didn't know that, thanks for this information!
We can only wait to have any concrete news from a reliable source about these negotiations.
But I imagine the Lakers will be able to make enormous changes for the next NBA season!

Let's wait...

Kyrie has opted into his contract with the Nets. He’s secured his bag, now he needs to find a team to trade for him. By opting in, he ends the Lakers speculation that LeBron will get him to sign for the minimum and then get him his Nike deal back.

DeAndre Ayton is now being speculated as a trading piece for the Nets. This is sparking talk that Kevin Durant might join the Suns… That would be interesting. I don’t think it’ll happen, but there’s talks happening…